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What’s New! Card Associations Settlement and Mastercard Fee increase There are a couple of things to note this month about the credit card processing industry.  The first is that a number of states have filed objections to the proposed $7.25 billion settlement that is currently on the table against the Card Associations (Visa and Mastercard).   […]

5 reasons to Choose eCommerce Vs. PayPal One of the biggest questions nonprofits face when putting together their websites is whether to use Paypal to accept donations or get a merchant account with an ecommerce company. While PayPal has its strengths, it is not always the best choice for nonprofits. An account with an ecommerce company offers […]

Dharma Tours Ritual Coffee Dharma partner SFMade is an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting San Francisco local manufacturer’s.  Our friends at SFMade offered public tours of its member merchants this summer to highlight merchants who manufacture, create or bake products within the city limits.  SFMade has over 350 members dedicated to creating job opportunities right here at home.  […]

SFMade and Buying Local By now, the idea of buying locally is imprinted on the minds of most sustainably minded consumers.  Buying food and products sourced from local vendors and stores close to your home (and preferably within your city limits) is smart AND eco-friendly for many reasons; 1.Local manufacturing and production of goods is […]

Being Inspiration is our “Being Game” of the month. The purpose of our game is to define and to hold awareness of some aspect of virtue, spirit and divinity. Each morning one of our team members will share an example of where Inspiration shows up in their life. Throughout this month we saw that there […]

Every month our team here plays the “Being Game”, in which we choose an aspect of the divine to hold in our attention in order to deepen our understanding of ourselves. This month’s game is Being Clear. We are finding endless situations and ideas out of this month’s game which are leading to daily awakenings. […]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Connected This past month’s Being Game (where we consider and hold an aspect of spirit for daily contemplation) was Being Connected. This was a particularly powerful game as we came to understand that the quality of our connection to our path, to our environment, to our partners, to our work, […]

The Bodhicitta Practice Foundation It was on her October, 2012 trip to Haiti with Haiti Health Initiative that Alexia Marcous, co-founder and Chief Optimistic Officer of Dharma, had a life-changing insight.  Despite hurricane Sandy’s destruction of the dental clinic she was volunteering in cutting the trip short, she described her experience as incredibly moving and […]

Featured Merchant: Thanksgiving Coffee This month we’re thrilled to feature Thanksgiving Coffee, a fellow family-run business here in Northern California. Started in 1972, Thanksgiving Coffee has been dedicated to community, fair trade, the highest-quality coffee and the well-being of their farming partners since the beginning, even suing Regan, Bush and Meese to end the embargo […]

Featured Merchant: Sungevity This month we’re honored to feature Sungevity, one of many of our beloved clients here at Dharma. One because we love solar, two because we love founder Danny Kennedy (the brilliant, passionate, orange-loving, former Greenpeace activist Aussie) and three because we love Danny’s new book: Rooftop Revolution (How Solar Power Can Save […]